looks pretty cool, look a whole lot better once you get the cables tidied up like
Thanks - new kit arriving this week so should be tidy soon
But in the mean time
Phase 7: Bungee mod
well almost as I used elastic
I’ve been meaning to do this for some time as it was so successful in my last case.
In essence it’s a cheap alternative to the rubber mountings or cradles that house a HHD in a 5.25
drive bay. But I’ve only one spare bay and two hard drives…but I do have a plan
Firstly here the CW01 drive cage – room for 5 HHD
Raptor and barracuda installed.
The drives fix very snugly within the cage so the only way to isolate them is by rotation.
This generates a problem and an opportunity – the drives fixing holes are now redundant and
there’s scores of unused cage fixing slots that can be utilized.
Clip-it’s make good temp knots
A shot of the case half threaded with the drives in position to check position. I used 10mm
flat elastic that works really well with the slots of the aluminum drive cage. When folded back
on it’s self the edges of the metal keep the elastic taught.
Four lines of elastic
I was going to use some drive bay rails from my old Silverstone but in the end I just re-used
the four mounting screws that I had removed earlier. These could even be tighten up to grip
two of the elastic threads on each side.
Tightening cross
The drives were snug, suspended, but still able to move around a little too much for my liking.
So I added a simple twisted loop linking the first threads on either side with the last ones, which
stopping any rotational movement and tighten up the whole cradle.
Curved stitching
Finished cage with the neat end of elastic bungee mod showing. You can also see how the
elastic come up through the slot and over into the first oval, along behind the second
and back up through the third oval and back down the slot again.
Result with the case lid on – near dead of night silence – even the raptors seek noise is now
a whisper, instead of an angry clicking of an hour ago.
Next job isolate the PSU – the fan whoosh at 900rpm is minimal but the resonance it creates
is now the loudest part even if it does have a soothing white noise profile.
